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Originally Posted by HansTWN
There are a lot more things you can't do with the iphone. You can't listen to music with stereo bluetooth headsets, you can't see internet video from a website (a serious shortcoming of Safari, no flash). You can't have an IM program open in the background, you can't listen to internet radio or TV in the background. You have no FM radio. You have no profiles, you have a very weak WiFi signal. You can't play many video file types with the ipod player. You can't turn off the accelerometer when lying in bed. You can't modify the interface to suit the way you work. There is a lot more.
How are e-mail and texting easier on the iphone?? I don't see it, unless you used to have a phone with a tiny 2.8" screen and an onscreen keyboard.... It is just as easy as it is on every other smart phone.
And I don't see how you can turn the "no expansion card", "no bluetooth file transfer" around and try to turn to them into an advantage. 
Let us face it, the iphone is just another phone, with its shortcomings like every other one. It works well within its enclosed system that Apple sets up for you. But it has a serious lack of flexibility. That due to conscious decisions that Apple has made for the user "You don't need this and that". With the other phones the user decides, and that sometimes takes a little more effort with the possibility of things turning out badly. The iphone is a good phone for what it is supposed to do, but all the negatives mentioned by others are very valid points.
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Not to turn this thread into an iPhone defense thread, but note the following:
1. I can listen to music on a stereo bluetooth headset. I do this every day of my life.
2. I can view video from many sources, just not Flash (yet).
3. I can run IM programs in the "background" by using jailbreak or using an app with notifications.
4. I can listen to music in the background, just not Internet radio. And how does watching TV in the background make any sense?
5. I have a very strong WIFI signal, with few drops, if ever.
6. When I read, I lock the accelerometer just fine in Stanza and the Kindle app.
7. I can re-arrange apps where I want them to be. What else do you need to do on a phone?
I understand that it's not the perfect device but I've never felt like I couldn't do something on my phone that needed to be done. Except for tethering, but that's AT&T's fault.
Bottom line: an Apple table will sell like crazy because it will be able to easily do what 99% of people want it to do.